Caitlín R. Kiernan
Autor/a de The Drowning Girl
Sobre l'autor
Nota de desambiguació:
(eng) Kiernan is gender fluid and uses they/them pronouns.
Sèrie
Obres de Caitlín R. Kiernan
The Yellow Book 21 exemplars
Reimagining Lovecraft: Four Tor.com Novellas: (The Ballad of Black Tom, The Dream-Quest of Vellit Boe, Hammers on Bone,… (2017) — Col·laborador — 18 exemplars
False/Starts II 14 exemplars
C is for the Crimson Alphabet 13 exemplars
The Aubergine Alphabet (A Fourth Primer) 13 exemplars
The Social Roots of Risk: Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience (High Reliability and Crisis Management) (2014) 9 exemplars
Refugees 8 exemplars
Cambrian Tales: Juvenilia 7 exemplars
The Chartreuse Alphabet (A Fifth Primer) 6 exemplars
Living a Boy's Adventure Tale 6 exemplars
The Girl Who Would Be Death #2 6 exemplars
False Starts 5 exemplars
Sanderlings 5 exemplars
The Girl Who Would Be Death #4 5 exemplars
The Girl Who Would Be Death #3 5 exemplars
The Merewife (a prologue) 4 exemplars
The Melusine (1898) [Short story] 3 exemplars
The Colliers' Venus (1893) 3 exemplars
As Red As Red 3 exemplars
The Steam Dancer (1896) 3 exemplars
Persephone 3 exemplars
The Belated Burial 3 exemplars
Faces in Revolving Souls 3 exemplars
Tidal Forces 3 exemplars
On the Road to Jefferson 3 exemplars
A Little Damned Book of Days 3 exemplars
The Worm in My Mind's Eye 3 exemplars
La Peau Verte 3 exemplars
Riding the White Bull {short story} 3 exemplars
Emptiness Spoke Eloquent 3 exemplars
The Girl Who Would Be Death 3 exemplars
Study for "Estate" 2 exemplars
Bast: Eternity Game 2 exemplars
Onion 2 exemplars
The Long Hall on the Top Floor 2 exemplars
Escape Artist 2 exemplars
The Bone's Prayer 2 exemplars
The Pearl Diver 2 exemplars
A Redress For Andromeda 2 exemplars
Galápagos 2 exemplars
Ode To Katan Amano 2 exemplars
The Maltese Unicorn 2 exemplars
Pickman's Other Model (1929) 2 exemplars
Goggles (c. 1910) 2 exemplars
Homesick (The Dreaming #44) 2 exemplars
Masques and Hedgehogs (The Dreaming #45) 2 exemplars
Mirror Mirror (The Dreaming #46) 2 exemplars
In the Dreamtime of Lady Resurrection 2 exemplars
Giants in the Earth 2 exemplars
Andromeda Among the Stones 2 exemplars
The Drowned Geologist 2 exemplars
Alabaster Volume 2: Grimmer Tales 1 exemplars
The Dreaming: Fox and Hounds 1 exemplars
The Dreaming: Many Mansions 1 exemplars
The Dreaming 9-12 (KIERNAN) 1 exemplars
False Starts 1 exemplars
The Dreaming: The Gyres 1 exemplars
STUDY FOR "ESTATE" 1 exemplars
The Dreaming Vol. 1 No. 19 1 exemplars
The Ape's Wife [short story] 1 exemplars
The Little Damned Book of Days 1 exemplars
The Dreaming Vol. 1 No. 17 1 exemplars
The Mermaid of the Concrete Ocean 1 exemplars
The King of Birds 1 exemplars
Sirenia digest 1 exemplars
On The Reef 1 exemplars
Second Sight (The Dreaming #51) 1 exemplars
Shatter (The Dreaming #49) 1 exemplars
Scary Monsters (The Dreaming #48) 1 exemplars
Exiles Part 3 (The Dreaming #54) 1 exemplars
Two Worlds and in Between [story] 1 exemplars
Exiles Part 2 (The Dreaming #53) 1 exemplars
The Dreaming: Unkindness of One 1 exemplars
Exiles Part 1 (The Dreaming #52) 1 exemplars
Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9) 1 exemplars
The Sandman Presents: Bast #1 1 exemplars
The Dead and the Moonstruck (in GOTHIC! - NOYES) 1 exemplars
Untitled Monster Doodle #1 1 exemplars
The Sandman Presents: Bast #2 1 exemplars
Untitled Monster Doodle #2 1 exemplars
The Cats of River Street (1925) 1 exemplars
The Transition of Elizabeth Haskings 1 exemplars
Random Thoughts Before A Fatal Crash 1 exemplars
The Dreaming: Souvenirs 1 exemplars
So Runs the World Away 1 exemplars
A Season of Broken Dolls 1 exemplars
Sirenia Digest, Vol. 14, No. 05 [148], May 2018 1 exemplars
Sirenia Digest, Vol. 14, No. 06 [149], June 2018 1 exemplars
Sirenia Digest, Vol. 14, No. 07 [150], July 2018 1 exemplars
Narylathotep: The Crawling Chaos 1 exemplars
Standing Water 1 exemplars
Alabaster [short story] 1 exemplars
One Tree Hill (The World as Cataclysm) 1 exemplars
The Sandman Presents: Bast: Eternity Game #2-3 1 exemplars
The Dreaming #9-14, 20-21, 26-44, 48-51, 53-59 1 exemplars
In The Water Works 1 exemplars
Postcards From The King Of Tides 1 exemplars
Pony 1 exemplars
Sirenia Digest, Vol. 15, No. 06 [161], June 2019 1 exemplars
Sirenia Digest, Vol. 15, No. 07 [162], July 2019 1 exemplars
Sirenia Digest, Vol. 15, No. 05 [160], May 2019 1 exemplars
Bainbridge 1 exemplars
Sirenia Digest, Vol. 18, No. 10 [201], October 2022, Passage of Venus in Front of the Sun 1 exemplars
Sirenia Digest, Vol. 19, No. 2 [208], May 2023. A Buyer's Guide to Commonplace Bizzareness 1 exemplars
The Dinosaur Tourist 1 exemplars
Estate 1 exemplars
Ode to Edvard Munch 1 exemplars
Bela's Plot 1 exemplars
From Weird and Distant Shores, Second Edition 1 exemplars
Sirenia Digest, Vol. 18, No. 6 [197], June 2022 1 exemplars
Houses Under the Sea [short story] 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Are You Loathsome Tonight?: A Collection of Short Stories (1998) — Epíleg, algunes edicions — 598 exemplars
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection (2005) — Col·laborador — 530 exemplars
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images, and Stories from Top Authors and Artists (2011) — Col·laborador — 430 exemplars
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection (2002) — Col·laborador — 266 exemplars
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Col·laborador — 266 exemplars
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection (1998) — Col·laborador — 242 exemplars
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six (2012) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 138 exemplars
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Eight (2014) — Col·laborador — 102 exemplars
Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror (2015) — Col·laborador — 85 exemplars
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Eleven (2017) — Col·laborador — 78 exemplars
Lethal Kisses: 18 Tales of Sex, Horror, and Revenge (1996) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 54 exemplars
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 59 (December 2015) - Queers Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue (2015) — Col·laborador — 44 exemplars
The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories: Twisted Tales Not to Be Read at Night! (2019) — Col·laborador — 43 exemplars
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Twelve (2018) — Col·laborador — 37 exemplars
New York Fantastic: Fantasy Stories from the City that Never Sleeps (2017) — Col·laborador — 34 exemplars
High Fantastic: Colorado's Fantasy, Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction (1995) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
Subterranean Magazine, Issue #6 (Fall 2006) — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Kiernan, Caitlín Rebekah
- Altres noms
- Wright, Kenneth Robert (birth name)
- Data de naixement
- 1964-05-26
- Gènere
- genderfluid
- Nacionalitat
- Ireland (birth)
USA - País (per posar en el mapa)
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Dublin, Ireland
- Llocs de residència
- Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Leeds, Alabama, USA
Trussville, Alabama, USA - Educació
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Colorado at Boulder - Professions
- paleontologist
writer - Agent
- Merrilee Heifetz (Writers House)
- Nota de desambiguació
- Kiernan is gender fluid and uses they/them pronouns.
Membres
Converses
THE DEEP ONES: "The Well of Stars and Shadow" by Caitlín R. Kiernan a The Weird Tradition (setembre 2023)
THE DEEP ONES: "Houses Under the Sea" by Caitlin R. Kiernan a The Weird Tradition (maig 2021)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Ghosts (1)
LGBTQIA Horror (2)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 295
- També de
- 166
- Membres
- 7,849
- Popularitat
- #3,098
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 262
- ISBN
- 163
- Llengües
- 9
- Preferit
- 39
I came upon Caitlín R. Kiernan when asking for some non-male voices in weird lit; and came upon this book at my local indie bookstore.
I essentially bought it on the name of the author alone, which may have been a mistake... this book is the second in a series, and although none of that is made explicit in the narrative, it does feel like I'm in the middle of a party that's already halfway started.
The narrative jumps across wide swaths of time, from the 60's to some 150 years in the future, and usually a different character each time as well. There may or may not be a struggle between two forces, over either twin sisters or something that those sisters represent. The sisters and a doctor who has some control over them are referred to in most of the vignettes, but usually obliquely.
This means that the actual conflict and dramatic intent of the scenes is always elsewhere than in the scene itself. This can be done to really compelling effect, but it misses the mark here, because it feels as though either I should already know the stakes involved, or that obscuring those details is somehow enhancing the mystery.
The climactic end of the book, and it's denouement, both suffer from this lack of information. I think I know what happened, but I couldn't tell you why it was important, or why all of these shadowy forces seemed to care.
There are also a lot of pop culture and literary references, which don't feel like they add to the story so much as wink at the audience... and an overarching chess motif which again doesn't feel like it adds to the story so much as adopts a genre convention of opposing forces referring to chess. It's even weakened by the characters themselves using it; moments like that drop me out since it feels like no one would refer to 'taking someone's knight' with a straight face, unless we're in a melodramatic genre mode, and we're not. We're in a gritty semi-realistic weird lit mode.
My first impression was that this might be a symptom of an author being just a bit too clever. Leaning on not giving information as a way of making the puzzle difficult, and references to tickle the dopamine part of our brain that enjoys making correlations. Not giving information to the reader doesn't inherently make it more interesting, especially when the characters have the information and we don't. It's a fine line between compelling us to want to figure it out and just frustrating us with too few pieces to be able to intuit the whole... and this book feels like it teeters towards that second result.
After reading it, I read other reviews to see if anyone else was experiencing something similar, and it does seem like I'm not alone here. However, the fans of Caitlín and her work make a good case for a continual re-reading of the text, suggesting that there are more answers to be found in the hints and references. This might be true... and I'm willing to keep reading more of her work and coming back to this.
I will also say that Caitlín can definitely write. The character voices are all distinct and the prose wonderfully reflects the voice and tone of the characters. There are descriptions and scenes that stick with me even now. In that respect, as an introduction to her work and answering the question about reading more, it's done it's job. I'll be reading more of Caitlín in the future, despite my somewhat lacking opinion of this book!
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